Emily Horner

It's 2025 and there are still people doing "male," "female," "transgender," and "nonbinary" as their "gender identity" survey options 🙃

Not a John Green megafan or anything (although I've read and liked a plurality of his books), but have been sufficiently aware of YA books, YouTube, and tuberculosis to know more about him than the average bear.
(I don't know much about the average bear, admittedly.)

Thrice Daily trivia game from Geeks Who Drink

Now that I can no longer spoil yesterday's Thrice thrice.geekswhodrink.com, allow me to register my annoyance that I did not get three points on the John Green question because I missed the announcement that he was Episcopalian. If I missed a John Green question, it's an overly obscure question.

A Moomin Movie Is Coming From Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar - Reactor In a just world there would be more Moomin movies than Marvel movies.

MOOMIN MOVIE INCOMING this is not a drill!!!!

reactormag.com/rebecca-suga...

This sounds delightful, but alas, I only do soil science fantasy.
(Genuinely tempted to gain some actual soil science knowledge so I can write something to submit.)

Climbing is hard when you're heavy.

Daydreaming about doing the Door County Century (or the 50-mile option! Or the 30-mile option!) next year while I can still only go 2 miles at a stretch is... well, at least it's motivational.

“good news, we’ve created the playroom that tells kids whatever they want to hear and makes them not care about their parents from the seminal Ray Bradbury short story, Don’t Create the Playroom That Tells Kids Whatever They Want to Hear and Makes Them Not Care About Their Parents”

You love to see it (spilling a full can of coconut milk on the kitchen floor just for the thrill of it)

I better get rid of my Meowijuana-brand catnip

He came to my university and I think the first audience question was "Slavoj Žižek thinks that people are too afraid of racial slurs."

A brightly colored risograph poster that says Move Slow and Fix Stuff with a sloth and the Open Source Hardware logo

Ive spent so much time working with tech people doing tech things on tech deadlines. In the past few years my practice has turned to analog tools (print making, zines, drawing) in my own personal protest. 1/3

So true

American nostalgia is dangerous, especially because this country collectively prefers (American) dreams and myth-making instead of accurately remembering our history.

Many of us are especially bad when it comes to nostalgia for our childhood and teen years, especially if we were or felt protected.

i have said this before but i think that ones view of the current political situation is fundamentally shaped by how you view the outcome of the 2024 election. was it a definitive affirmation of the MAGA worldview or a narrow, extremely contingent result?

Shows data from a heart rate monitor. 87% of the time is in zone 4 (threshold), "I'm scared of riding a bike." 11% of the time is in zone 5 (maximum), "I'm scared of riding a bike and now I'm going up a hill."

The trouble with teaching myself to ride a bike again is that between post-COVID deconditioning and abject fear, it doesn't take much to get my heart rate into the danger zone.

It's Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration season in Texas. At least 90% of all southward migration passes through Texas, either along the coast, or through central Texas.

They'll overwinter in Mexico, then return.

Let's talk about the utter weirdness of generational migration.

People who don’t know or care about justice *for others* cannot comprehend the moral authority wielded by the victims of injustice. They dimly guess that this authority is rooted not in justice, but in victimhood. So they seek to usurp it thru competitive displays of indignation.

Walking through a university library at 8 am and suddenly becoming hyperaware of the hideous sloshy sound your water bottle is making: a short manga by Junji Ito

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

A small warbler with black-and-white plumage, a fiery orange throat, and a yellow face gazes skyward. Set against a soft green background. Photographed in Simsbury, Connecticut.

A Blackburnian Warbler shines like a flame in the dim conifer forest.

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

In the meantime, I will have to find park trails that aren't crowded with people walking their elderly dogs.

I wish I felt less goshdarn wobbly on my bike. I know from experience that that's a feeling that will come with time, probably, but in the meantime - you don't want to cycle on Milwaukee public streets unless you are, and feel, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT in control.

I felt VERY VERY SILLY but the customer service person was nice about it.

Finally I talked to a human.
"It shouldn't be a problem that you're in the US," they said.
It turned out - someone (possibly me, possibly not me) put in my incorrect phone number.
(I didn't notice it because multi-factor authentication only shows the last 4 digits of your phone number!)

Can't get SMS verification from my Canadian bank account. "Huh, it must be because I'm in the US," I thought, and used email verification instead.
Until they turned off email verification.
And I had to call customer service.
It took me way too long to figure out how to talk to a human.

I've never thought of it this way and this is kind of terrifying.

Bluestockings Cooperative Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Sometimes I recognize exactly the fantasy that Instagram is trying to sell me but I still can't help thinking that I can in fact be the person they want to sell me on being.